Names

Shoshone:
yahm·b or Yump or Yumbay (Top-of-the-list-food, for man and beast)

English: Yampah

Scientific: Perideridia gairdneri

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Early summer in flower dug in loose soil
• Late summer
  • Antelope flats in Jackson Hole, between sagebrush

Primary Uses

• 100% digestible carbohydrate. Tasty and staple food.

Secondary Uses

• Used to make bread

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• Starch and inulin

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Notes

Medicinal Uses:

• Immune: Contains Inulin as immune support
• Intestinal Health: food roots contain inulin

Process Prep:

• Roots dried for flour or eaten raw

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Sticky Geranium

Scientific: Geranium viscosum

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Any time of growing season

Primary Uses

• Pot-herb, leaves, stems, flowers. Fresh: prior to flowering; used as a salad green
• Dried roots, pounded into powder could be used to stop bleeding. Also, could be eaten for bleeding ulcers; diarrhea

Secondary Uses

• Tea for bleeding gums, and mouth sores

Cautions

• Root tea can cause constipation

Active Principle(s)

• Leaves: High in vitamin C and B
• Roots: Astrigents

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Abrasion: Fresh root applied to abrasions as astringent
• Bleeding: Dried root applied to a bleeding wound
• Diarrhea: Dried root tea
• Hemorrhoids: Root tea topical with evening primrose root
• Rash: Root infusion to soothe and shrink sores
• Teeth: Tea of roots and leaves for loose teeth
• Throat: Root tea for sore throat
• Ulcers: Root tea
• Vitamin C: Leaves are food

Process Prep

• Use fresh on wounds or chew for diarrhea
• Dry roots and pound into powder for storage
• 1 tsp in cup of water 3x/day for diarrhea

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Fireweed

Scientific: Epilobium angustifolium

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Summer
  • June, July, August
• Root any time
• Leaves and flowers any time, but especially when flowering

Primary Uses

• Cooked as food like spinach tea for general health infusion for skin infection

Secondary Uses

• Teas, food
• Delicious tea when leaves are fermented

Cautions

• None Listed

Active Principle(s)

• Quercitin, Oenothic Acid

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Notes

• Food
  • Leaves and stems are used in stews, and leaves make very nutritious teas. Before flowering stems can be used as soup thickeners
• Leaves
  • Fungal infections
    • drink as tea for internal yeast infections or use topically for toenail or diabetes fungal infections.
    • Roots: Treats skin injuries, skin cancers. Can be used as suppository for hemorrhoids.
• Allergy: Leaf tea
• Antibacterial: topical poultice and internal tea
• Anti-inflammatory: Tea
• Arthritis: Leaf tea, anti-inflammatory
• Blood Pressure: Tea increases B.P
• Burns: Poultice
• Constipation: Leaf tea
• Cough: Leaf tea as throat medicine
• Fungicide: Leaf or root tea
• Healing: Poultice or tea for many symptoms
• Hemorrhoids: Root suppository combined with leaf tea
• Immune: Tea as an immune stimulant
• INfection: Leaf infusion as a wash
• Itching: leaf of root infusion poultice
• Intestinal Health: Tea
• Kidney Nephritis: Tea
• Laxative: Tea
• Pain: Leaf tea for stomach/belly pain
• Skin: Topical infusion is good for skin integrity. Internal tea source of Quercitin and nutrients for skin
• Stings: Topical and tea at some time. Reduces histamine production
• Urinary tract infection: tea is antifungal

• Roots
  • treats skin injuries, skin cancers. Can be used as a suppository for hemorrhoids

General Notes:

• anti-allergy medicine tea for runny nose, eyes, to tract fungal infections of all kinds. Hemorrhoids (use root)

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Buckbrush “Elk-weed or soap-brush or redroot”

Scientific: Ceanothus velutinus

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Early Summer
  • for soap use when the leaves are still shiny

Primary Uses

• Tincture from red parts of the roots: 30-50 drops, 2x per day relieves head congestion and bronchial

Secondary Uses

• None Listed

Cautions

• Difficult to dig out the root

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

• Isolate the red parts, once bark is shaved off with hatchet

Medicinal Uses:

• Anxiety: Leaf tea
• Bleeding: Root tea for capillary hemorrhage and hemorrhoids
• Chest: Root tea to reduce lymph swelling
• Congestion: Root tea
• Ears: Root tea for ear congestion or infection
• Headache: root tea
• Healing: Flower infusion to wash wounds
• Hyperactivity: Leaf tea for calming
• Lymph: Root tea reduces lymph swelling
• Nervous Systems: Leaf tea relaxant

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Rayless Coneflower

Scientific: Rudbeckiaoccidentalis

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• When in flower
  • Yellowstone, inside Yellowstone park, Teton park, mountain hillsides

Primary Uses

• Arthritic joints: rub fresh, mashed leaves/stem boil, then keep it in the water until the next day, rub water on painful joints

Secondary Uses

• None listed

Cautions

• None listed

Active Principle(s)

• None listed

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Notes

Medicinal Uses

• Swelling: Infusion rubbed on swollen joints – to reduce arthritic pain and inflammation
• Arthritis: Topical anti-inflammatory

Process Prep

• Fresh poultice

Names

Shoshone:
doo·pooi·toe·n·zee·yap

English: Larkspur

Scientific: Delphinum sp.

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Above ground plant when in flower

Primary Uses

• De lousing: gather, dry: make into powder. Kills and repels lice. Use soapy lather of Buckbrush, to hold it in hair finally, rinse

Secondary Uses

• Very poisonous alkaloids

Cautions

• Poisonous to livestock and people

Active Principle(s)

• Delphinin

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Notes

Medicinal Uses:

• Lice: Powdered plant or water infusion

Process Prep

• Dry

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Green Gentian

Scientific: Frasera speciosa

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Any time

Primary Uses

• Roots, used for same results, gut clean-out, by grizzlies

Secondary Uses

• Roots, used in Spring to prepare body for new plant diet, of the fresh plants of the new growing season
• Old People’s Medicine for intestinal stimulant

Cautions

• Internally can be irritating to intestinal ling if used too long

Active Principle(s)

• Gentiopicrin and Amaragenin

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Medicinal Uses

• Fungicide: Topical or internal leaves or roots in tea
• Lice: Powdered root in soapy water
• Old People’s Medicine: Intestinal stimulant to improve digestion
• Stomach: Root tea soothes upset stomach

Process Prep

• 1 tsp of dried powdered root in water for constipation or stomach upset

Names

Shoshone:
Unknown

English: Goldenrod

Scientific: Solidago sp.

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• When pollinating or when leaves are green

Primary Uses

• The entire plant was used as an antibacterial. Pollen was sprinkled on the wound site.
• Today sometimes are treated this because of its anti-fungal properties

Secondary Uses

• Leaves were used as pot herb

Cautions

• Some people maybe allergic to plants in this family

Active Principle(s)

• None Listed

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Medicinal Uses

• Abrasion: Wound dressing with roots and leaves
• Allergy: Leaf tea
• Antibacterial: Poultice or pollen sprinkled on open wound
• Anti-inflammatory: Leaf and root
• Bleeding: Pollen or leaf infusion
• Burns: Leaf or flower poultice soothes burns. Root was to heal burns
• Fungicide: Powdered leaves or leaf/flower/root tea
• Glomerulitis: Leaf/root tea
• Headache: Root tea
• Healing: Powdered plant or whole plant tea
• Infection: Flower, leaf, roots as powder or tea
• Itching: Tea drunk to reduce histamine reaction
• Intestinal Health: Leaf/flower tea
• Kidney Nephritis: Leaf tea
• Kidney Stones: Roo tea
• Lice: Powdered leaves in soapy water
• Menstruation: Tea regulates menstrual flow
• Neuropathy: Leaf/flower tea
• Pneumonia: Tea
• Rash: Tea
• Stomach: Tea to calm the sensitive stomach
• Swelling: Leaf/flower tea is anti-inflammatory
• Throat: tea
• Urinary Tract Infection: tea
• Vitamin C: LEaves as vegetable
• Yeast infection: Root, leaf, flower tea

Names

Shoshone: Unknown

English: Chickweed or “Mouse Ear”

Scientific: Cerastium arvense

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• During flowering time

Primary Uses

• Flowers and Leaves as Pot herb

Secondary Uses

• None Listed

Cautions

• None Listed

Active Principle(s)

• Vitamins A,C,E, and B

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Notes

General Use:

• Leaves and flowers as food and have vitamin C in them

Names

Shoshone:
woy·yoe·nah·gway·shee

English: Horsetail

Scientific: Equisetum arvense

Zone

Upper Foothills

Harvest Time

• Not Specified
  • Located in both Upper Foothills and Montane
• Foods sprouts when 1″ to 2″ tall
• Medicinal tea: mature green plants

Primary Uses

• Kidney and Bladder infection and joint pain

Secondary Uses

• Polishing and scrubbing, especially fine sanding of woods and metal items

Cautions

• Do not eat when plants are mature-too much silica can be harmful to the intestinal lining

Active Principle(s)

• Silicon Dioxide for scrubbing aids in calcium recycling
• Calcium and enzymes

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Medicinal Uses:

• Antibacterial: Infusion is wash for infections
• Bleeding: Poultice to stop bleeding
• Blood pressure: Tea raises low blood pressure
• Constipation: Tea
• Cough: Tea
• Immune: Tea strengthens immune response
• Old People’s Medicine: Tea to strengthen connective tissue and bones
• Osteoporosis: Tea for recycling calcium
• Pneumonia: Tea
• Rash: Tea improves skin quality through blood purification
• Skin: Tea for skin tone
• Stomach: Tea for upset stomach
• Urinary Tract Infection: Tea

Process Prep

• Stir fry or boiled as food
• tea for medicine